Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool; Zoë Kinsley is Associate Professor of English Literature at Liverpool Hope University; Kathryn Walchester is Reader and Subject Leader for English at Liverpool John Moores University.

• Notes on Contributors; Microtravel: An Introduction ; Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester; Section 1. Confinement and Immobility; How to Travel in Monastic Confinement: An Imaginary Journey to the New World; Joëlle Weis; The Nile, Immortality and the Body in Lucy Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt; Sally Abed; A Slow Boat to Indochina: Immobility and Micro-movements on the Road to Indochina; Gábor Gelléri; No Going Back: Interrupted Journeys and Identity Crisis in Marie Ndiaye ; Carole Delaitre; Section 2. Deceleration and Pedestrianism; Friedrich Engels Travels in a Chimney; Jayson Althofer; ‘I Wanted to Think, Write, Stay or Move on at My Own Speed and Unencumbered’: Pedestrian Rites of Passage in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts; Béatrice Blanchet; ‘Foot foundered and broken down’: Painful Pedestrianism in John Clare’s ‘Journey out of Essex’ ; Zoë Kinsley; Section 3. Palimpsestic Travel; Elegy for the Living: Travels in Guyana with Michael Swan and Wilson Harris; Patricia Murray; Back to Base: Palimpsest Travel in the Black Country Geopark; R. M. Francis; Observed and Reflected: Women Tourists, Microtravel and Souvenirs, 1750–1830 ; Emma Gleadhill; Section 4. Microspection and Microsound; ‘This Is a Place Where We Should Like to Have Lived’: The Garden As ‘Dwelling Place’ in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writing; Kathryn Walchester; In a Sound World: On Microaudition As a Mode of Microtravel; Charles Forsdick; ‘The echo of great spaces traversed’: Microaudition and Vertical Travel in In Search of Lost Time; Eleanor Lischka; Index

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Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool; Zoë Kinsley is Associate Professor of English Literature at Liverpool Hope University; Kathryn Walchester is Reader and Subject Leader for English at Liverpool John Moores University.

• Notes on Contributors; Microtravel: An Introduction ; Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester; Section 1. Confinement and Immobility; How to Travel in Monastic Confinement: An Imaginary Journey to the New World; Joëlle Weis; The Nile, Immortality and the Body in Lucy Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt; Sally Abed; A Slow Boat to Indochina: Immobility and Micro-movements on the Road to Indochina; Gábor Gelléri; No Going Back: Interrupted Journeys and Identity Crisis in Marie Ndiaye ; Carole Delaitre; Section 2. Deceleration and Pedestrianism; Friedrich Engels Travels in a Chimney; Jayson Althofer; ‘I Wanted to Think, Write, Stay or Move on at My Own Speed and Unencumbered’: Pedestrian Rites of Passage in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts; Béatrice Blanchet; ‘Foot foundered and broken down’: Painful Pedestrianism in John Clare’s ‘Journey out of Essex’ ; Zoë Kinsley; Section 3. Palimpsestic Travel; Elegy for the Living: Travels in Guyana with Michael Swan and Wilson Harris; Patricia Murray; Back to Base: Palimpsest Travel in the Black Country Geopark; R. M. Francis; Observed and Reflected: Women Tourists, Microtravel and Souvenirs, 1750–1830 ; Emma Gleadhill; Section 4. Microspection and Microsound; ‘This Is a Place Where We Should Like to Have Lived’: The Garden As ‘Dwelling Place’ in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writing; Kathryn Walchester; In a Sound World: On Microaudition As a Mode of Microtravel; Charles Forsdick; ‘The echo of great spaces traversed’: Microaudition and Vertical Travel in In Search of Lost Time; Eleanor Lischka; Index

Taylor and Francis

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool; Zoë Kinsley is Associate Professor of English Literature at Liverpool Hope University; Kathryn Walchester is Reader and Subject Leader for English at Liverpool John Moores University.

• Notes on Contributors; Microtravel: An Introduction ; Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester; Section 1. Confinement and Immobility; How to Travel in Monastic Confinement: An Imaginary Journey to the New World; Joëlle Weis; The Nile, Immortality and the Body in Lucy Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt; Sally Abed; A Slow Boat to Indochina: Immobility and Micro-movements on the Road to Indochina; Gábor Gelléri; No Going Back: Interrupted Journeys and Identity Crisis in Marie Ndiaye ; Carole Delaitre; Section 2. Deceleration and Pedestrianism; Friedrich Engels Travels in a Chimney; Jayson Althofer; ‘I Wanted to Think, Write, Stay or Move on at My Own Speed and Unencumbered’: Pedestrian Rites of Passage in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts; Béatrice Blanchet; ‘Foot foundered and broken down’: Painful Pedestrianism in John Clare’s ‘Journey out of Essex’ ; Zoë Kinsley; Section 3. Palimpsestic Travel; Elegy for the Living: Travels in Guyana with Michael Swan and Wilson Harris; Patricia Murray; Back to Base: Palimpsest Travel in the Black Country Geopark; R. M. Francis; Observed and Reflected: Women Tourists, Microtravel and Souvenirs, 1750–1830 ; Emma Gleadhill; Section 4. Microspection and Microsound; ‘This Is a Place Where We Should Like to Have Lived’: The Garden As ‘Dwelling Place’ in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Travel Writing; Kathryn Walchester; In a Sound World: On Microaudition As a Mode of Microtravel; Charles Forsdick; ‘The echo of great spaces traversed’: Microaudition and Vertical Travel in In Search of Lost Time; Eleanor Lischka; Index

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